Here is a view of my hotel room. You can see my food and water tray in the lower left hand corner. The glass table wound up getting moved so my human could work out Friday night.

My human brought Stella and Chewy freeze dried raw food for this trip, and she needed to hide the baggie somewhere I couldn’t get it. There was a free standing closet which I would walk into every time she opened the door. So this was the only way she was able to keep the food away from me. The other baggie had forks for my wet food, paper bowls, and gloves in case my human needed to deal with any messy stuff (she hates getting cat food or litter on her hands — she’s quirky like that). She just hung it with the food because it was easier to keep everything in one place.

When she went to a nearby shopping mall to pick up a couple of things, my human saw this bunny on the grass strip by the road leading to the parking lot. She never gets to see bunnies in our area (although her ex-boyfriend swears he has seen them), so she took photos. It actually stayed put for several pictures.

You saw how neat and sparse our booth was in the exhibitor’s area… but what you didn’t see was the disaster area behind the table! Since 90% of what my human packed was either cat stuff or vending items, it was easier for her to bring the whole suitcase each day. She was frequently digging through it, searching for something!

My human had a pretty miserable birthday evening coming home from the event. Chicago O’Hare is a notoriously awful airport, not to mention Los Angeles International, where we were landing. And it turned out there weren’t any really nice places to dine there. Well, there was one, but they didn’t even have prices on the menu items listed out front, so she thought it was better to pass. She wound up getting a sandwich and some awful airport cheesecake. Well, she thought it was awful. I wanted to decide for myself, although she wouldn’t let me.

The one really nice thing that happened that night was that my human came home to birthday flowers! Fortunately, the pet sitter who was taking care of Boodie brought them in from the hot sun. So in between the nice people at Meow MeetUp, and coming home, her birthday really only had a few nasty bumps.

We loved that behind-the-scenes stuff, Summer. We’re sorry your human’s birthday wasn’t the greatest. We think she’s awesome, and that she deserves to have a super special and happy birthday celebration.

These were really cool. That hotel room looks nicer than our condo. TW hates to get certain things such as cat food and most sticky stuff on her hands since she’s gotten old. What were those little black things in the cheesecake? Axing for a friend.

Our mom had a six-hour layover in O’Hare once–yikes! She was so bored that she actually started smoking again after having quit. (That was years and years and YEARS ago.) And come to think of it, it was on HER birthday too!! Anyway, we hope your human can celebrate now that she’s back, and happy belated birthday to her!

Cool! It’s like a back-stage pass at a concert! Happy birthday to your human. I’ve been meaning to send her a card and with all the mess around here, I forgot about it (even though it’s on my to-do list … let’s just say the to-do list is the also the to-procrastinate list).

So glad you were with your mom for her birthday. No one wants to be without a loved one on such a special day. Now tell your mom to go out and pawty to make up for the crazy no-priced food, MOL. So time like the present to pamper oneself. Purrs and Huggs

It’s too bad you guys weren’t at the same hotel as our mom! Miss Lauren told our mom that when you entered the exhibit hall you walked in like you owned the place! Our mom said O’Hare is horrible! Even worse than LaGuardia, and that’s bad!

Traveling can really be a trial on our nerves and sanity, for sure. Glad you got to come home to a welcome pretty sight! How thoughtful!

Eons ago, before 2007,, I would sometimes see bunnies in our yard, but then the new fence curtailed their entry…most of the time! They used to play bunny games under my big picture window, and they sometimes had nests with several wee ones;)

Cute bunny shot and you look beautiful as always posing with the pretty birthday flowers…Hope your Mom is making up for her birthday with fun celebrations for the rest of the month=she deserves it!…XO…J, Halle, Sukki

Traveling for business on a birthday is one thing – traveling for FUN would be another but at least you had a beautiful bouquet waiting for you at home! Hope overall your Human had a nice birthday and you had a nice time too Summer.